The 300 Spartans
PG · 1962 ‧ Adventure/War ‧ 1h 54m
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6.5/10 · IMDb
70% · Rotten Tomatoes
Story of how Spartan King Leonidis led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large.
Release date: August 29, 1962 (USA)
Director: Rudolph Maté
Story by: Gian Paolo Callegari; Remigio Del Grosso; Giovanni d'Eramo; Ugo Liberatore
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios
Box office: $76,520,000
Budget: £500,000 (approximately $1,350,000.)